Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] at [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten years later however the BBC asked me at very short notice to compile a programme to celebrate the Queen Mother 's eighty-fifth birthday . |
| 2 | Half way up , Springsteen shot through his legs and passed me at about Mach 5 , doing a handbrake turn at the bottom of the stairs and heading for the back door . |
| 3 | It was like a nightmare to sit and listen to the loose stones bouncing off my windscreen and bodywork as the lorry passed me at about 70mph . |
| 4 | That did nothing for County 's confidence , but they gradually began to exert a control that promised them at least a draw until Sansom 's unlucky deflection . |
| 5 | They also bought blank cassettes , and Zuwaya used them at least as much to record poems and songs as to re-record other cassettes or broadcast music . |
| 6 | We found him at least two of my officers did , in a bath full of boiling water in the shower rooms . |
| 7 | Once amongst the world 's greatest blue-water navigators , guided by wave patterns and the clues in seaweed and bird droppings , the Bugis had now lost so much confidence in their old ways that they had been reduced to coast-hugging , on the principle that if their ships sank they at least had a chance of making it ashore alive . |
| 8 | ‘ I am sorry , Jenna , ’ she began , but Alain stopped her at once . |
| 9 | Well I seen her at even the other day . |
| 10 | Let us now consider ( 39 ) where the word plastered follows its noun ( again , an attributive interpretation is possible in principle — Clara might be an offensively wealthy tourist who travels round Italy trying to buy buildings and parts of buildings to take home as souvenirs ; but we shall assume that this meaning can safely be left out of account ) : ( 39 ) Clara wants the façade plastered It at once becomes apparent that this may specify either an event , with the façade on the receiving end of it , or a state which Clara wishes to see existing in the façade . |
| 11 | He reported it at once and when the police and ambulance got there they found the bodies of a man and a girl lying on the road and partially burned . |
| 12 | When I revisited the place in 1974 , I found it at once grim and beautiful , at once an irrelevance to my present life and a painfully inevitable part of what I was , what I am , and what I always shall be . |
| 13 | He noticed me at once . |
| 14 | He recognised them at once . |
| 15 | Mr McNally : ‘ Are you aware that when he authorised the extension that he told Mr Anderson , and indeed told me at 10.30am yesterday , that there was not sufficient evidence at that stage to charge Mr Anderson following the four interviews on May 24 ? ’ |
| 16 | Ian Abbey , Conservative chairman of the education committee assured her at yesterday 's Tory-controlled full council meeting that children would be fed and the letter would be investigated . |
| 17 | The examination papers written in Victoria 's large , even script were considered adequate ; her interview was unexceptional , although the examiners at Girton College recognised her at once as she had been universally described by all who knew her : an extremely pleasant girl of excellent character . |
| 18 | It was a picture of Louise Butler and Terry recognised her at once as the girl who had run out in front of his car on the night of the rave . |
| 19 | She recognised him at once from the blunt-nosed profile and pepper-and-salt hair en brosse and the large tinted lenses of his glasses , and the way he hooked his head to one side and forward like a boxer butting . |
| 20 | As he entered the shop the young girl assistant came forward ; she recognised him at once . |
| 21 | I told her at once that I knew her secret , and made her promise not to send or receive any more letters . |
| 22 | ‘ You 're not going anywhere , ’ he told her at once . |
| 23 | Of course when he was living with Beatrice — and he painted her at least fourteen times — he could resume his sittings more or less at will . |
| 24 | Preston identified it at once . |
| 25 | The chamber had priestly vestments draped on dummies like olden days tailors might have used , and I identified it at once by the basin and marble slab in the corner . |
| 26 | Jacob nudged Judith ; this was one of his grandfather 's chestnuts — he told it at least once a year , unfailingly on his birthday . |
| 27 | Despite a turnover of plants in the 1960s and early 1970s , employment was maintained until the mid-1970s when a CDP study estimated it at about 4800 of whom 50% were women . |
| 28 | Karelius , though dreading what he might hear , confronted him at once . |
| 29 | They screwed him at least once and he knows it . |
| 30 | The last photograph of herself showed her at about twenty-five , here in the garden at Greystones , sorting apples into baskets . |